WHILE AMERICA GOSSIPS THESE THINGS ARE WHAT WE MISSED

anti-Syrian Lebanese leader was assassinated by a car bomb

a Sept. 6 air strike by eight Israeli Air Force F-15s and F-16s carrying Maverick missiles and 500-pound bombs was aimed at a North Korean shipment of nuclear materials being delivered to a Syrian installation. The attack was to prevent a “devastating surprise” Syria had allegedly been planning for Israel

Iran threatened to fire hundreds of missiles at Israeli and U.S. targets

An explosion, possibly from ordnance left over from last year's war with Israel, killed a Syrian worker and wounded four people Tuesday in a remote area in northeastern Lebanon, witnesses and security officials said. The victims were working in a field in the village of As-Sawah around 80 kilometers northwest of the city of Baalbek when one of them reportedly picked up a strange looking object